| nanarchy said: The thing that amazes me most here is that you do seem to have a serious problem with the police and especially the militarization of them and discrimination. however the case people have chosen to rally behind seems to be a blatant case of the cop doing the right thing, or at the very least an understandable thing. A single punch landed correctly is enough to kill someone, no one should ever have to accept that and once someone is trying to inflict that on you they have given up all rights of their own personal safety. |
Happened in Vermont years ago, ended (scaled back dramatically, at least) a very old festival called the 'Bread and Puppet' which was a grass roots political 'theater' they'd held since the 1960's. A guy nicknamed 'June Bug', went to the event drunk, with the sole purpose of getting into fights, hit someone in the head (one punch) and killed him. From the Wiki Page:
"Until 1998 the Bread & Puppet hosted its annual Pageant and Circus (in full, Our Domestic Resurrection Circus), in and around a natural amphitheater on its Glover grounds. In the 1990s the festival became very large, drawing crowds in the tens of thousands of people who camped on nearby farmers' land over the summer week long of the pageant. The event became unmanageably large and less and less concerned with the theater's performance. In 1998 a man was accidentally killed in a fight while camping overnight for the festival, and director Peter Schumann subsequently canceled the festival."
It wasn't an accident though, the guy went there intentionally to fight. A friend of mine from High School actually made the call to the police implicating him.
